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Thomas, his father, died in Andover.  An inventory was taken June 16, 1662 showing an estate amounting to 156 pounds, 10 shillings, 2 pence. The inventory was allowed Sept. 30, 1662, when Margery, his widow, was administratrix of estate.  By contract before marriage, margery was to have half the estate.  The court ordered 20 pounds, 10 shillings to be paid to Jacob Rowell, his son, when 21 years of age and to his grandchildren, the children of Valentine Rowell.  The eldest son of his grandchildren was to receive 7 pounds, 4 shillings. The other five grandchildren were to receive 20 shillings apiece. Additional inventory was sworn to in 1681 when his son, Jacob, was appointed to take the place of Margary, his widow.  Jacob is then called the only child who had then become of age.  He was appointed administrator because Margary, the widow, had moved out of the jurisdiction to Nantucket.  Jacobe speaks of an agreement between his father and mother before marriage.  The appraisers were Dudley Bradstreet and Thomas Chandler.  Some of the estate was on the Indian Plains, being the third division meadow, on the west side of Shawshine river, and upland in the swamp division.

On May 27, 1673, Christopher, his brother, occupied the house and land of his mother, Margery Colman of Nantucket, in which she had lived with her former husband, Thomas Rowell.  On June 8, 1675, she mentioned that she had let her house and land for twelve years to her son, Christopher of Andover.  He was to pay her 15 pounds at the expiration of the twelve years.  On that date, she oredered him to pay it to her son Thomas Osgood.  This deed of gift received from his mother, Margery Colman of Nantucket, late of Andover, gives him the dwelling house, barn, land, etc. "wherein I lately dwelled in my former husband Thomas Rowell, his tyme" and he is to "pay, or cause to be payd unto my sonn Jacob Rowell, the full sum of Twenty nyne pounds ten shillings, when he comes to the age of twenty one years, according to the order of court," and to her daughters Abigail Wilson, and Deborah Ross (Russ), 5 pounds each.

In 1675, Thomas was to receive, by the order of his mother, from his brother Christopher, 15 pounds towards paying the above portion to Jacob Rowell.  He also received in 1675 a feather bed and bolster which his mother had left in her son-in-law, John Lovejoy's hands.

On June 6, 1681, Thomas made an agreement with his brother Jacob Rowell, carpenter, of Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, for 5 pounds and 29 pounds, 10 shillings, "already paid by my brother Thomas Ossgood (aforesayd) to George Norton (1676)".

In 1692/93 Jacob had a shop lot granted to him on the south side of the river, 28 feet front on the street, being the 9th lot from the bridge in Ipswich.  On March 11, 1697/98, he is in Ipswich with his wife, Elizabeth.  He sold Major John March of Newbury all his right in the estate as "sole heir to my father Thomas Rowell's Estate, in the Townes of Salisbury and Amesbury....also sole administrator,......and alsoe those lands, that was given by my said Father, unto my brother Vollentine (half brother), is now possessed off, are excepted. Witnesses, Phillip Fowler and Joseph Fowler (his cousins, sons of Joseph Fowler)."


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